Link here. Excerpt:

'Blackfriars Priory School student, James Lawler, is the winner of “The Bic Young Australian Writer of the Year Award” for 2010. An initiative of not-for-profit community organisation, Children’s Charity Network, The Australian Children’s Literary Board aims to promote and recognise literary excellence via this national competition open to young writers from Years 3 to 12.

With approximately 20,000 entries, the school community is extremely proud of this accomplishment. James’ story “As I Stumble on Trembling Legs” tells the tale of a day working in the frenetic pace of a fast food restaurant. Tinged with humour, James builds dramatic tension in this story based on his own experiences in the industry.'

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A woman has been found guilty of raping another woman in a toilet cubicle at an inner Brisbane hotel.

Anne-Marie O'Loughlin, 25, had pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane District Court to two counts of rape, deprivation of liberty and sexual assault.

A jury on Friday afternoon found O'Loughlin guilty of two rape charges and deprivation of liberty.

She was found not guilty of the sexual assault charge.'

Story here. And not just her, but her husband and children. But this is a rare case of actually holding the primary criminal, if she is female, primarily accountable. Excerpt:

'Nicole's journey started in 2002, when she was barely 12, in her small village in western Ghana. She and about 20 other girls were held in plain sight, but always under the watchful eyes of their captors.
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The girls' families sent them to the United States after being assured they would receive a better education. But once they arrived, they were forced to work in hair braiding shops across the Newark area -- just a short drive from New York City, right in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.
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"My dad ... worked hard so I could go to school, so when my auntie came and told my family that I could go to a school in the U.S. ... they trusted her," she said. "Everyone was happy about it."

Column here. Excerpt:

'Your "Upcoming Trial for Alleged Wife Killer Sheds Light on Larger Problem" story was sexist, stereotyping men as violent oppressors and women as innocent victims, and made a false claim.

Your sentence, "That attitude keeps many immigrant women — and they are, overwhelmingly, women — from reporting abuse" misleads the reader that the vast majority of domestic violence victims are women.

Although men under-report domestic violence more than women in both crime reports and crime surveys, the two-sex survey data consistently shows women initiate domestic violence as often as men, that 38 percent of injured victims are men, that women use weapons more often than men, and that self-defense does not explain female violence. California State University summarizes almost 200 of these studies at http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm.'

From SAVE:

Hundreds of studies conducted in the United States have examined the nature and extent of domestic violence. For example, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control survey reported that among young adults, half of all partner aggression was mutual, and 71% of the instigators of nonreciprocal partner violence are female.

But what about partner aggression in other countries?

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) has just published a new Policy Briefing: What is the Profile of Domestic Violence Around the World? (http://www.saveservices.org/policymakers/what-is-the-profile-of-domestic-violence-around-the-world/)

The briefing summarizes the findings from 6 community surveys of intimate partner aggression conducted in 38 countries throughout the world.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 50-year-old woman accused of throwing her granddaughter to her death off a parking garage walkway has been charged with murder.

Carmela Dela Rosa allegedly threw two-and-a-half-year-old Angelyn Ogdoc off a sixth floor outdoor walkway at Tysons Corner Center around 7:15 p.m. Monday, Fairfax County Police spokesperson Tawny Wright tells WTOP.

Dela Rosa was arraigned Tuesday morning at Fairfax County Circuit Court. She is due back there on Jan. 4.
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Dela Rosa, of Fairfax, was walking with other family members Monday when she picked up and threw the girl off the walkway in a matter of seconds, Wright says.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last week, researchers at the University of Colorado published a psych experiment that seems almost too good to be true. They showed that two 15-minute writing exercises, administered to an intro physics class early in the semester, could substantially boost the scores of female students. Even more curious: the exercises had nothing to do with physics. Instead, students were asked to write about things that mattered to them, like creativity or relationships with family and friends. How could a few paragraphs on personal values translate into enduring better mastery of pulleys and frictionless planes?
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...Stereotype threat is a universal offender: It can sabotage white men on the basketball court or men more broadly on a test of social sensitivity. Whenever people are made to worry that they might confirm a negative assumption—for instance, that girls can't do math or that white men can't jump—they may be less likely to do their best. Frustratingly, the stereotypes they want so badly to avoid instead may instead become self-fulfilling....
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Article here. Excerpt:

'...women are the fastest-growing prison population in the state, in the country, and in the world.

Why? It’s hard to say. Overall, the prison population has boomed since the 1980′s, so it only seems natural that the numbers of women would increase as well–but proportionally, women still outnumber men compared to 30 years ago. One common explanation is the increasing participation of women in the narcotics industry, whether as users or dealers. Others contend that women are often arrested as accessories to crimes involving their husbands and boyfriends.
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As the population of women in prison continues to grow, it’ll be interesting to see how correctional institutions evolve to respond to this population’s needs–will the system become more rehabilitative? More focused on sustaining famiy relationships during incarceration? Will they not change at all? Should they change at all?'

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'For the past few weeks one of the the stars of MTV's hit show, "Teen Mom," Amber Portwood, has been the focus of a whole lot of media attention for her domestically violent behavior caught on tape towards the father of her toddler child Leah and boyfriend, Gary Shirley.

Every news outlet from CBS to CNN to TMZ has written or spoken about the on-camera verbal and physical assaults that Amber has directed towards Gary. Gary, to his credit, has never physically retaliated.

Although I don't know Gary personally I know thousands of "Gary's" in similar situations. Gary, like other men in these situations who do not hit women or defend themselves against a woman's violence, know the rules of the game i.e. if a woman hits you stand there in take it because if you defend yourself you're going to jail. There is no excuse for abuse, unless it's a woman doing the abusing.'

On A Voice for Men, here. Excerpt:

'“Ju know, they say eet was the hoosbands fault,” announced the thirty something Mexican immigrant who was cutting my hair that day, two months before 9/11 changed the world. The big story of the moment was not about terrorists or toppled buildings, but about Andrea Yates, the Houston area mother of five that snuffed the life out of all of her children a mere half hour from where I live. And my stylist, using up every word of almost English in her repertoire, was attempting to 'splain to me how the whole mess could rightly be hung on the man.

“Oh, yeah?” I asked, unsurprised at the stupid remark, but too far into the haircut to get up and walk. “Who are they?” I was instantly pissed and made no effort to hide it.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A BRITISH ballet teacher with a budding career in showbusiness was warned today that she faces a possible jail sentence after pleading guilty to abducting a teenage pupil.

Sarah Pirie, 27, was an aspiring dancer, actress and choreographer and had appeared in TV dramas Waterloo Road and Hollyoaks when she met the 15-year-old boy during one of her classes at a dance school.

She was initially accused of having sex with the youngster at a succession of hotels in Manchester and across the UK's North West over a three-month period between March and June last year.

But the dancer learned that she would no longer have to face the five charges of sexual activity with a youngster when she made a brief appearance before Judge Michael Byrne at Preston Crown Court.

Instead she changed her plea to guilty on a single count of abducting the teenager on May 22 last year. She was freed on bail until January 7 when she will be sentenced.'

Here's the video to an earlier post from India about women making men do sit ups because of harassment accusations during a train ride. The harassment claims haven't been substantiated so this could just be the result of men entering the women-only train because of over crowding. Much worse than the sit-ups is footage of police escorting the men off the train at gunpoint while female passengers strike them. I heard about the video after watching 'Countdown' with Keith Olbermann. He played the footage and cracked jokes.

Press release here. Excerpt:

'The Foundation for Male Studies will focus on the research and programs needed to reverse the downward spiral, which is now affecting virtually all aspects of the lives of men and boys, at the Second Annual International Conference on Male Studies – Looking Forward to Solutions, April 6, 2011.

Edward M. Stephens, MD, FMS’ Founder and Chair says that in addition to the conference’s solution-geared presentations by leading authorities, the Foundation is calling for papers from academics on how to best deal with increasing levels of male unemployment, depression, suicides, dropping out of school and related problems.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A lottery winner has been left appalled after the wife who left him for another man ten years ago was able to grab £2million of his winnings.

Nigel Page, who won the £56million Euromillions jackpot earlier this year, is said to have been planning a generous gift to his former wife.

But this wasn’t enough for Wendy Page, 43, who decided to take legal action against him for more.'

Link to posting here. Excerpt:

'12 Month position based in Coober Pedy.

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic energetic and positive person to work with male perpetrators of Domestic/Family Violence. The person will provide case management, support, Community Development and work within a Strength Based Practise.

The successful applicants will need to have:
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